How To Use Spasmodically In A Sentence
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The green barbets also call spasmodically throughout the month, chiefly in the early morning and the late afternoon, but the only note uttered by the coppersmith is a soft _wow_.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
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He coughed spasmodically before gasping out his next words.
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But the burning brimstone went up his nostrils and into his lungs, causing him to cough spasmodically.
To Build a Fire
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This much mental electricity should be able to run a small city, but instead I'm more like a cut power line, arcing and sparking spasmodically.
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My hair bristled and I felt all my muscles twitch spasmodically.
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DVD Focus 'The Limey' (1999) Steven Soderbergh directed and Lem Dobbs wrote this slyly funny, spasmodically violent film noir in which the title character, a white-haired obsessive named Wilson (Terence Stamp), shows up in Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death.
Soderbergh Goes 'Haywire' With a Fast, Stylish Thriller
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Her involvement with the organization continued spasmodically for fifteen years.
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My hair bristled and I felt all my muscles twitch spasmodically.
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Last of all, when the other channels for the escape of the surplus nerve-force have been filled to overflowing, a yet further and less-used group of muscles is spasmodically affected: the head is thrown back and the spine bent inwards -- there is a slight degree of what medical men call opisthotonos.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
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The green barbets also call spasmodically throughout the month, chiefly in the early morning and the late afternoon, but the only note uttered by the coppersmith is a soft _wow_.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
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Then, while he was still listening to the unfamiliar echo of his own voice, he heard just behind him a _splash, splash, splash_, and his left arm jerked itself spasmodically from beneath his breast, the hand simultaneously touching a substance that was hard, cold, and slimy.
Adventures in Many Lands
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Not only is there the creepy age difference in that movie, but his dancing seems to consist entirely of spasmodically moving his left leg and raising his left arm in a pointing gesture.
Matthew Yglesias » Electric Bike?
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He had long been reading law in his curious, spasmodically concentrated way, and he had practised a little as a "pettifogger," that is, an unlicensed practitioner in the inferior courts.
Abraham Lincoln
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Its little brown form quivered spasmodically as it sneezed.
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1943: Letters are coming in spasmodically while parcels arrive fairly regularly.
Work Camp 11033 GW
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Hmmm. I can think of another word-similar but not quite the same as "spasmodically" - to describe Mad Nad and her blogging, but apparently the word's not politically correct these days.
The Devil's Knife
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His throat worked spasmodically, but made no sound, while he struggled with all his body, convulsed with the effort to rid himself of the incommunicable something that strained for utterance.
The Call of Kind
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The unexpectedness of the crushing hurt of it caused him to yelp and at the same time instinctively and spasmodically to pull back with all his strength.
CHAPTER XXIII
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She flexed herself, she breathed spasmodically as if to confuse the natural rhythms of her body.
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The projection was an abstracted human head, spasmodically twitching in a sort of half-nod.
365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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Bâtard's body twitched with the shock, threshed the ground spasmodically for a moment, and went suddenly limp.
BÂTARD
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I was speechless, my mouth opening and closing spasmodically.
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I began to write intermittently and spasmodically
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Spasmodically are dolorous who sapindus cobalt and tragically are the double yearly librettist who beggarman no tuxedo for the fohn medical by heartsease primitive.
Rational Review
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His jaws champed spasmodically, froth appeared on his blackened lips.
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When pure, carbonic dioxide gas will instantly extinguish flame, and is perfectly irrespirable, causing the epiglottis to close spasmodically and producing immediate death by asphyxia.
Religion and Chemistry
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Her involvement with the organization continued spasmodically for fifteen years.
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Sekher lay sprawled upon his back, twitching spasmodically, mouth working silently.
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the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner
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The rumbles of thunder continued spasmodically above our heads, and the streets occasionally lit up in a flash of lightening.
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The green barbet calls spasmodically throughout December, but, as a rule, only in the afternoon.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
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Her involvement with the organization continued spasmodically for fifteen years.
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The spasmodically adducted vocal cords are partially hidden by the over-hang of the spasmodically prominent ventricular hands.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
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Her involvement with the organization continued spasmodically for fifteen years.
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A very small trade was indulged in spasmodically on the coast of Fukien, and it was not until 1762 that a Dutch factory was established at Canton.
